R. Gregory Bourne

Bourne co-founded two conflict resolution programs while on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and the Southeast Negotiation Network. He served as executive director of the Consortium from its inception in 1986 until 1996 when he left Georgia Tech to direct the Center for Civic Participation and Renewal. The Center is a non-profit organization focused on enabling citizens, and civic leaders, to more effectively engage in civic affairs. He is also on the Board of the Public Decisions Network, a national network of senior public policy mediators.

Bourne has worked extensively with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at both headquarters and regional levels. He has also worked for several other federal agencies during the past twenty years, including the Corps of Engineers, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, Geological Survey, National Parks Service, and the Departments of Education, Energy and Justice. He has also assisted numerous state and local governments around the country. Issues addressed in these projects include: regulatory reform; pollution prevention; natural resources, ecosystem, endangered species and nuclear waste management; environmental justice; protection of water resources; beneficial use of dredged materials; and siting of waste management facilities.

Internationally, Bourne has worked for the U.S. Information Agency on democratization and natural resources management in Kazakhstan, and consulted with visiting delegations from Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics on issues related to negotiation, conflict resolution and policy making.